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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 11, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
HIS BANNER OVER ME. 
Surrounded by unnumbered foes, 
Against my soul the battle goes; 
Yet though I weary, sore distrest, 
I know that I shall reach my rest; 
I lift my tearful eyes above— 
Ills banner over me is love. 
Its sword my spirit will not yield, 
Though flesh may faint upon the field; 
He waves before my fading sight 
The branch of palm—the crown of light; 
I lift my brightening eyes above— 
Ilis banner over me is love. 
My cloud of battle-dust may dim, 
His veil of splendor curtain Ilim ! 
And in the midnight of my fear 
I may not feel Him standing near; 
But, as I lift mine eyes above, 
His banner over me is love. 
—Gerald Massey. 
* 
When asparagus arrives this Spring 
try it with horseradish sauce. Boil the 
asparagus as usual; drain, and then 
serve with hot cream sauce, to which 
grated horseradish has been added, and 
well stirred in, in sufficient quantity to 
give a piquant flavor, without being too 
hot. This sauce is excellent with boiled 
beef, and with many kinds of fish. 
* 
One of our friends makes her floor 
cloths from old black stockings. She 
cuts them open and then runs several 
together flat on the machine. Their tex¬ 
ture makes them very absorbent, and 
they are excellent for mopping. We like 
them for stove rubbers, and also for 
general polishing about the kitchen, old 
knit underwear being also convenient 
for the same purpose. 
* 
Brown bread brewis is an old-fash¬ 
ioned breakfast food, but an improve¬ 
ment on many of the hygienic shavings 
now offered. Good Housekeeping gives 
the following recipe for it: Dry the 
bread in the oven and put through a 
food chopper. If kept sealed it will 
keep for some time and may be used 
when needed. To two cups of hot milk, 
well salted, add one cup of the dried 
crumbs and one tablespoon of butter 
and cook, beating steadily for five min¬ 
utes. Serve hot with an abundance of 
sweet milk. 
* 
The New York Charity Organization 
Society, in common with many other 
helpful associations, maintains a Penny 
Provident Fund. This fund aims to do 
/or the poor what savings banks do not 
do; it invites savings deposits of less 
than one dollar. Deposits of one cent 
and upward are receipted for by stamps, 
attached to a card given to each deposi¬ 
tor. When a sufficient sum has thus 
been saved, the depositor is encouraged 
to deposit it in a bank where it will 
draw interest. The fact that there are 
about 275 of these stamp stations in 
New York and the eastern section of the 
United States shows that many helpful 
organizations are already doing in a 
small way what the Government ought 
to be doing in a large one, by means of 
postal savings banks. 
* 
On page 303 a correspondent asks 
how to can milk for use when the cows 
are dry. The answer given is somewhat 
complicated, compared with instructions 
given in “The Rural Cook Book,” page 
133. This recipe was sent us by a 
housekeeper who has had entire success 
with it: Allow the milk to become per¬ 
fectly cold, then fill sterilized fruit jars 
to within half an inch of the top. Set 
the covers on loosely, and set in a clean 
boiler, standing on a wooden rack. Fill 
boiler with cold water to within an inch 
of the top of the jars, set on the stove, 
and bring the water to the boiling point, 
allowing it to boil 20 minutes from the 
time ebullition begins. Then remove 
the cans one by one, put on new rub¬ 
bers, fill with boiling milk and screw up 
tight. Stand the cans upside down until 
cold, then store in a cool dark place. 
Of course this milk has a scalded taste, 
but it will be found very useful. It is 
very necessary to have all utensils ab¬ 
solutely clean, and to use new rubber 
bands. 
* 
This is the season when most coun¬ 
try dwellers feel a longing for “greens” 
of some sort, for if no southern or hot¬ 
house products are bought there is apt 
to be a long stretch of root crops with¬ 
out any fresh green vegetables. Marsh 
marigolds, dandelion and scurvy grass 
are among the first wild greens in our 
locality, but we feel impelled, every year, 
to warn our readers of the danger that 
lurks among the innocent greens. Nearly 
every year we hear or read of some one 
who is dangerously or even fatally ill 
from eating young shoots of the black 
hellebore, gathered with marsh mari¬ 
gold. There is no reason why anyone 
should gather these broadly ovate, 
plaited, sheath-clasping leaves by mis¬ 
take, and we can only urge those who 
do not know it to avoid any form of 
“greens” that they do not know. The 
strongest poison of this plant is in the 
root, but there seems no doubt that the 
young foliage is dangerous. Recently 
several" children in our county were poi¬ 
soned, two fatally, by eating some un¬ 
known root dug from a swamp. The 
plant was said to be skunk cabbage, the 
root of which is narcotic, producing 
stupor, dimness of sight, etc., but it is 
quite as likely to have been black helle¬ 
bore or poison or water hemlock, all of 
which grow freely in the locality. It is 
well to teach the children of the danger 
in unknown plants, and to give them 
enough simple knowledge of local botany 
to recognize friends and foes. 
Mattress Information Wanted. 
Would some one give us the most ap¬ 
proved method for thoroughly cleansing 
an all-hair mattress? The information 
would be highly appreciated by us. 
MRS. e. b. s. 
Winter on the Farm. 
How shall a farmer’s wife spend the 
Winter? By reading to inform herself 
and thereby command the respect of her 
children, her husband and the commun¬ 
ity. She should visit the school fre¬ 
quently in which her children are learn¬ 
ing. She will attend church more regu¬ 
larly and with more comfort and satis¬ 
faction than she can in the busy months 
of the year. She should do up the year’s 
sewing, with the exception of those gar¬ 
ments which she prefers to have the 
imprint of the latest fashions. She may 
visit the sick and make a few calls on 
the aged and shut-ins. If time permits 
she should become acquainted with her 
neighbors and learn the home surround¬ 
ings of the children with whom her 
children associate on the road and in 
school. There is always more char¬ 
itable, more humane and more philan¬ 
thropic work to be done in the Winter. 
She can find sufferers of many kind 
near her if she has a sympathetic heart. 
Wild birds can be fed, peddlers can be 
allowed to enter a warm kitchen and 
be cheered by a kind look rather than a 
slammed door. Hot coffee offered to 
ice workers or others may warm the 
cockles of the heart of some man fast 
losing faith in human nature. A sand¬ 
wich or cookie offered a passing school 
child who is hungry will never go amiss, 
and help giver as well as recipient. Has 
the farmer’s wife any lonesome time in 
Winter? No; not if she follows out 
these thoughts. a Michigan woman. 
The principle of liberty and equality, 
if coupled with mere selfishness, will 
make men only devils, each trying to be 
independent that he may fight only for 
his own interest. And here is the need 
of religion and its pov'er, to bring in the 
principle of benevolence and love to 
men.—Randolph of Roanoke. 
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The durable blacks that do not fade or 
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If your dealer hasn’t Simpson-Eddystone Prints write 
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A MAN’S DISPOSITION 
is, without doubt, seriously affected by the 
climatic conditions which surround him. 
ARE YOU PLEASANTLY LOCATED? 
Are you shut in by the ice and snow of a rigor¬ 
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gaze upon? What of your lands now? Covered 
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The farmers in our territory are plowing,their 
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